This is quite a milestone and will be news to just about everybody. Many are familiar with the ’12 years since a major hurricane (cat 3, 4 or 5) hit the mainland US but I for one had NO idea it is fully a quarter of a century without a cat 5. This is the exact opposite of what experts like Al Gore said was ‘certain’.

Not that i buy into this AGW bullcrap((only a little bit as part of cause&effect a little bit of a weak climate gas is only able to increase temp. a little bit,but nothing to worry about)but i remember that there was much much talk in our media(germany)about the biggest fastest hurricane ever hitting america?(though i never heard of any significant damage(as i expected from the beginning)

Thx-it was Patricia and i already knew that it will cause a huge little nothing when hitting the states,because they were so desperate talking it into the ultimate armageddon(the usual ‘biggest eva’ blabla),due to lack of any significant hurricane in the past years.

But i still don’t get how such a tempest in a teapo…oops bigger than the universemega- hurricane did not reach category 5??Or was it a spinal-tap category 6?

Wow Patricia …. you make a mistake and Tony points out the error and you go home with ur panties in a knot never to return. Grow up, little one!We all screw up …. learn to laugh at ur mistakes or errors and learn. I had a great boss who said at a department meeting “we all make mistakes, don’t make a really stupid one & don’t make the same one twice”. The unsaid warning was getting fired would result from the more serious mistakes.

OMG, Tony just collapsed into a shivering mass of self abnegation and remorse to the strains of the world’s smallest fiddle playing the Albinoni adagio.And Patricia, I am so triggered by your self sacrifice in no longer seeing app the cool pics Tony puts out there. “Look into your heart!” Patricia.Don’t your understand that working hard enough to rub the letters off your keyboard might make a man a little prickly? Oh that’s right, you’re not listening anymore

You made an erroneous comment on Tony’s blog and Tony then politely corrected your error. You suggest his simple correction of your mistake is rude and not good? That Tony has no right to correct a mistake on his very own blog? What else should he have done?

With a technicality (CAT 5 at landfall) you erase the most active hurricane season in history according to Wikipedia: “The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the most active Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history, shattering numerous records.” AND “Katrina was the costliest natural disaster and one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the history of the United States.”Well, the headline implies – like it or not – that there were no very destructive hurricanes in the last 25 years – and this is badly misleading.

Look at how Wiki – notorious for climate alarmism, use an over-excitable ‘shattering’ when a more mundane ‘breaking’ would’ve been quite sufficient. A small detail but they don’t do these things by chance.

Patricia, it isn’t the technical at all. Katrina was not a Cat 5 at landfall Period. Just don’t take Tony’s remark personal. I have seen this same emotional kind of stuff when you correct people that say that Sandy was a major hurricane at landfall in NJ. When I show them that the National Hurricane Center said it wasn’t even a Hurricane at land fall they go nuts! They immediately start talking about the damage and lives lost. That has NOTHING to do with the classification nor does it matter if it came ashore some where or not. All that matters is sustained windspeed.

I wouldn’t take Wikipedia as an authority on anything, especially something that’s become political. Katrina was so costly only because it hit New Orleans, which failed for decades to properly manage their levees even though they had many many warnings to do so. New Orleasn is laregly below sea level, which explains why so much of it can be wiped out by even a Cat 3 hurricane.

And regarding 2005, there were sevelra hurrican seasons in the 1930s that were more active I believe, but if they are using dollars figures then modern storms are more apt to be more expensive due to cost of labor and insurance differences between the eras.

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“To give you an idea of the strength and devastation associated with these storms, below is a listing of some of the most memorable hurricanes since pre-colonial times. While the number of casualties from these storms have gone down over the years, the cost from the damage caused by these storms have risen tremendously. That has resulted from more building along the coastline, and more expensive homes and businesses.”http://www.hurricaneville.com/historic.html

Tony is talking about Cat 5s that made landfall. Katrina was a 5 in the Gulf but not when it came ashore (@ Buras LA)–down to 3 as others note. Not sure if that’s a technicality, but it’s factual and has been widely discussed in the hurricane/storm surge communities.

2005 was very destructive but it has been incredibly quiet since then. Ike was a large storm in 2008, and Sandy of course in 2012.

It is remarkable that since Katrina in 2005, the entire Atlantic and Gulf coasts have been hit by only a couple of hurricanes. Pretty quiet this year, too, as the media is pointing out (oh wait, they aren’t pointing that out are they).

This is the exact opposite of what the climate alarmists told us was going to happen.Hurricanes were supposed to be getting stronger and more frequent — they aren’t. More egg on the face of the Chicken Little, sky-is-falling, it’s all getting worse climate alarmist crowd.

Tony, you really have great company! True brave keyboard heroes, hiding behind their keyboards in anonymity spitting out insults, well, stay classy!BTW Tony, you are my age. These folks have no manners, they are simply cowards.

All Tony stated was a fact, that Andrew was the last CAT 5 at landfall. Adding to that is that there has not been a landfalling major (CAT 3, 4 or 5) in almost 12 years, by far the longest such period on record.

Yes, Ike and Sandy were destructive storms, mainly due to very high tides. But they did not qualify as major hurricanes in terms of their wind speed.

Anything with the movie title starting with “The Day After…” is guaranteed not to happen and so far always results in the opposite of contemporary liberal fantasies about catastrophe.

In 1983 everybody knew that crazy senile can’t-trust-with-the-nuclear-codes President Reagan was going to incinerate us all any day. The original “The Day After” had Jason Robards wandering thru a nuked Kansas where it was better to have been incinerated from the start. The Soviet Union collapsed 8 years later. We may have booted the end game, but Hollywood had done the damage.

In 2004 the second installment: “The Day After Tomorrow” paradoxically portrayed a sudden global warming caused ice age that followed Arctic “hurricanes” the size of continents ravaging a planet whose balance constantly teeters on a knife edge. After a record hurricane season in 2005, hurricanes ceased to be a bother in the US and ACE declined world wide. Children in Florida have grown up not knowing what hurricane is…they may have to rename the U’s football team.

I’m hoping for a next installment “The Day After Trump” that tells the horrors America faces resulting from his leadership. We need the next The Day After… Probably guaranteed a commercial success in the current environment. Come on Hollywood, we need you. It’s time.